"at 99 in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, which the BFI attributed to its ""managing to combine faithfulness to the novel with a freshness that appealed across the generations"". ""Radio Times"" included the serial in their list of ""40 greatest TV programmes ever made"" in 2003. It was also named by ""Entertainment Weekly"" as one of the 20 best miniseries of all time. In 2007, the UK Film Council declared ""Pride and Prejudice"" one of the television dramas that have become ""virtual brochures"" for British history and society. Lyme Hall, Cheshire, which had served as"
"for a promotion of British television's UKTV channel. Modelled on actor Colin Firth who played the role in the 1995 BBC miniseries, the statue will make the rounds of several English lakes before its final installation in Lyme Park, a location where the programme was partly filmed and already a pilgrimage site for ""Pride and Prejudice"" fans. Mr. Darcy Fitzwilliam Darcy, generally referred to as Mr. Darcy, is one of the two central characters in Jane Austen's novel ""Pride and Prejudice"". He is an archetype of the aloof romantic hero, and a romantic interest of Elizabeth Bennet, the novel's protagonist."
"at Ealing Studios in west London. ""The Guardian"" declared the lake scene ""one of the most unforgettable moments in British TV history"". The sequence also appeared in Channel 4's Top 100 TV Moments in 1999, between the controversial programme ""Death on the Rock"" and the Gulf War. ""The New York Times"" compared the scene to Marlon Brando shouting ""Stella!"" in his undershirt in ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" and Firth's projects began alluding to it – screenwriter-director Richard Curtis added in-joke moments of Firth's characters falling into the water to ""Love Actually"" and ""Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason"", and Firth's"
"National Park, the first national park in England (est. 1951). As a consequence, several communities actually reside within both entities. The Peak District is home to many notable, natural, features and also man-made features such as Chatsworth House, the setting for the BBC series ""Pride and Prejudice"". Sheffield City Council has created a new chain of parks spanning the hillside behind Sheffield Station. The park, known as Sheaf Valley Park, has an open-air amphitheatre and will include an arboretum. The site was once home to a medieval deer park, latterly owned by the Duke of Norfolk. Sheffield has six cinema"
"Watendlath Watendlath is a hamlet and tarn (a small lake) in Cumbria in England. Watendlath is owned by the National Trust and sits high between the Borrowdale and Thirlmere valleys at above sea level. Blea Tarn Gill, above Watendlath Tarn, provides the tarn with its water. Water from Watendlath Tarn flows into the beck of the same name and eventually feeds Lodore Falls, and ends up in Derwent Water. The tarn is in size, with a maximum depth of . It was given to the National Trust by Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess Louise, in memory of her brother, King Edward"
"fell and Hardknott Roman Fort, which is maintained by English Heritage. In the Duddon Valley the Trust oversees almost 30 square kilometres (12 mile²) and nine farms. Wasdale, Eskdale and Duddon Wasdale, Eskdale and Duddon is an area of protected countryside, now held as National Trust property: it is part of the Lake District, located in south-western Cumbria, England. In Wasdale, the National Trust owns both the country's highest mountain, Scafell Pike, as well as its deepest lake, Wastwater. The majority of the surrounding mountains also belong to the Trust, including Great Gable. Further down the valley is the wooded"
"used as a stand-in for the Battle of Culloden in the 4 part ""Doctor Who"" serial ""The Highlanders"". The lakes were used as a film location for the 1999 film ""The Mummy"", posing as the river Nile. In 2010, of the common had a fire. Frensham Common Frensham Common is a large Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) heathland of owned by the National Trust which includes two lakes. Frensham Common is an English SSSI heathland of owned by the National Trust which includes two large lakes and is managed by Waverley Borough Council and is almost wholly within Frensham,"
"and attractions such as a silver exhibition which displays a collection of silver amassed by the Brownlow family, dating from 1698. Further revenue is raised from the use of the property as a filming location, and from licensing the Marble Hall for civil weddings. The house features in the BBC's 1988 adaptation of ""Moondial"". and also as ""Rosings Park"" in the BBC's 1995 television version of ""Pride and Prejudice"". Until its acceptance by the National Trust, Belton House was always in the ownership of the family of its builder, though the failure of three generations to produce a son and"
"the village before entering the lake, and then exits downstream into nearby Rydal Water, beyond which it continues into Windermere. The waters of the lake are leased by the Lowther Estate to the National Trust. The waters are navigable, with private boats allowed and rowing boats for hire, but powered boats are prohibited. The lake contains a single island, known as ""The Island"". In 2017 this island was bequeathed to the National Trust. This gift has particular significance to the National Trust, as the organisation was founded in response to the sale of the same island to a private bidder"
"front, a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial appearance. Its banks were neither formal, nor falsely adorned. Elizabeth was delighted. She had never seen a place where nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste. They were all of them warm in their admiration; and at that moment she felt that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something! Pemberley Pemberley is the fictional country estate owned by Fitzwilliam Darcy, the male protagonist in Jane Austen's novel ""Pride and Prejudice"". It is located near"
"later increased its holdings to . The lake's scenery and proximity to Hollywood made it a popular filming location. It appeared in more than forty films, including: It also appeared in six television series, including: On May 19, 2010, a 29-year-old man drowned in the lake after his canoe capsized. Cedar Lake Dam was built in 1928 across Talmadge Creek. It is a variable-radius arch dam high and long containing of material. Its crest is above sea level. The old mill house and water wheel can be seen in the Bonanza episode ""Thornton's Account"". There are two other Cedar Lakes"
"the 2005 film ""Pride & Prejudice,"" and more recently the 2016 film ""Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,"" as a location for the 2006 movie ""Marie-Antoinette,"" and as Lord and Lady Radley's house in the 2009 film ""Dorian Gray."" The interiors of Basildon stood in for the Crawley family's London mansion, Grantham House, on the series ""Downton Abbey"". Basildon Park Basildon Park is a country house situated 2 miles (3 kilometres) south of Goring-on-Thames and Streatley in Berkshire, between the villages of Upper Basildon and Lower Basildon. It is owned by the National Trust and is a Grade I listed building."
"character from the 2007 film ""St Trinian's"" emerges from a fountain in a soaking wet shirt before meeting up with an old love. The creators of the 2008 ITV production ""Lost in Austen"" emulated the lake scene in their ""Pride and Prejudice"" through their contemporary heroine who cajoles Darcy into recreating the moment. Cheryl L. Nixon suggested in ""Jane Austen in Hollywood"" that Darcy's dive is a ""revelation of his emotional capabilities"", expressing a ""Romantic bond with nature, a celebration of his home where he can 'strip down' to his essential self, a cleansing of social prejudices from his mind,"
"Wasdale, Eskdale and Duddon Wasdale, Eskdale and Duddon is an area of protected countryside, now held as National Trust property: it is part of the Lake District, located in south-western Cumbria, England. In Wasdale, the National Trust owns both the country's highest mountain, Scafell Pike, as well as its deepest lake, Wastwater. The majority of the surrounding mountains also belong to the Trust, including Great Gable. Further down the valley is the wooded and tranquil Nether Wasdale Estate. In nearby Eskdale, the National Trust owns over 70 square kilometres (27 mile²) and eleven farms are protected with extensive areas of"
"will forever be remembered as the perfect Mr. Darcy"", and Gene Seymour stated in a 2008 ""Newsday"" article that Firth was ""'universally acknowledged' as the definitive Mr. Darcy"". Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series) Pride and Prejudice is a six-episode 1995 British television drama, adapted by Andrew Davies from Jane Austen's 1813 novel of the same name. Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth starred as Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Produced by Sue Birtwistle and directed by Simon Langton, the serial was a BBC production with additional funding from the American A&E Network. BBC1 originally broadcast the 55-minute episodes from 24"
"£650,000, and the trust was subsequently relaunched as a registered charity working for the benefit of people and wildlife in the area. The organisation is gradually recovering from its financial loss, and is continuing to work toward its wide remit. Cotswold Water Park The Cotswold Water Park is the United Kingdom's largest marl lake system, straddling the Wiltshire–Gloucestershire border, northwest of Cricklade and south of Cirencester. The lakes were created in the second half of the 20th century by extraction of glacial Jurassic limestone gravel, which had eroded from the Cotswold Hills, and these filled naturally after working began to"
"River Forth, Falkirk. They have also participated regularly in the Fife Cup since their formation in 1885, winning the competition more than thirty times, most recently during the 2006–07 season. In the STV television detective drama ""Taggart"", the writer and Dunfermline fan, Stephen Hepburn used the names of the 1968 Scottish cup winning side for the characters in a 2003 episode. Filth was the 1998 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It was adapted into a 2013 film of the same name, directed by Jon S. Baird with James McAvoy in the lead role. In the film the Hearts supporting"
"The Lakes (TV series) The Lakes is a British television drama series, created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern, first broadcast on BBC1 on 14 September 1997. The series, which was principally filmed in and around Patterdale and The Ullswater Hotel, Glenridding, stars John Simm as Danny Kavanagh, a hotel porter, compulsive gambler, and philanderer who escapes from the dole queues in Liverpool to live in the Lake District. After he meets and marries local girl Emma Quinlan (Emma Cunniffe), they move back to Liverpool. However, the consequences of Danny's gambling habit results in Emma moving back to the Lakes."
"in the 1930s around a fictional lake derived from a combination of Windermere and Coniston Water. The fictional lake resembles Windermere, but the surrounding hills and fells resemble those of Coniston Water. The BBC made a television series ""Swallows and Amazons"" in 1962; parts of this were filmed at the boathouse of Huyton Hill Preparatory School (now Pullwood House) on the northwestern shore. In the horror novel ""The Pike"" (1982) by Cliff Twemlow, a pike in Windermere goes on a killing spree, and the consequence is a boom in the lake's tourist trade. Two attempts have been made to film"
"was progressed by Shelagh, (Dowager) Countess of Wemyss and March. The ponds in the policies were recently restored by James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss who took over the family estate and title in December 2008 when his father died. Gosford can be seen from Edinburgh on a clear day. It is open to the public in the summer. The grounds contain an unusual and rare example of a Scottish curling house. Several film productions have utilized the site, including the 2000 film ""House of Mirth"", directed by Terence Davies and based on the novel by Edith Wharton, and ""Outlander"","
"Moss Eccles Tarn Moss Eccles Tarn is a tarn on Claife Heights, near Near Sawrey in the Lake District, Cumbria. It is currently owned by the National Trust and known as an attractive tarn for fishing and walking. It is known for its association with Beatrix Potter – she owned the tarn and donated it to the National Trust after her death, and it served as inspiration for some of her stories. The tarn is on Claife Heights. Alfred Wainwright calls it the ""most attractive"" tarn on Claife Heights; it is stocked with water lilies and fish, and surrounded by"
"Lake District The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes, forests and mountains (or ""fells""), and its associations with William Wordsworth and other Lake Poets and also with Beatrix Potter and John Ruskin. The National Park was established in 1951 and covers an area of 2,362 square kilometres. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. The Lake District is located entirely within the county of Cumbria. All the land in England higher than above sea level lies"
"Haverthwaite Railway. The park's buildings were flooded during the 2015–16 Great Britain and Ireland floods. Fell Foot Park Fell Foot Park is a country park, formerly the grounds of a Victorian house, situated beside Windermere, a lake in Cumbria, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust. It is in the civil parish of Staveley-in-Cartmel in South Lakeland district. The estate was owned by Jeremiah Dixon, mayor of Leeds in 1784, who sold it in 1859 to Colonel G.J.M. Ridehalgh (1835-1892), a director of the North Lonsdale Iron and Steel Company, colonel of the 2nd Westmorland Volunteer Battalion Border"
"the film (where Bridget and Shazzer are at the Thai airport), Bridget indulges in a fantasy of Mark coming out of water in a wet white shirt, just like Colin Firth did in the 1995 BBC version of ""Pride and Prejudice"". The poem that Daniel quotes from while passing Ko Panyi is the story of ""Phra Aphai Mani"" by Sunthorn Phu. One of the more significant differences between the novel and the film is that the film makes no mention of Bridget's fascination with the BBC television version of Jane Austen's ""Pride and Prejudice"" (Colin Firth starred in that production.)"
"""Pride and Prejudice"" was honoured with several awards, including a BAFTA Television Award for Jennifer Ehle for ""Best Actress"" and an Emmy for ""Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Miniseries or a Special"". The role of Mr Darcy elevated Colin Firth to stardom. A scene showing Firth in a wet shirt was recognised as ""one of the most unforgettable moments in British TV history"". ""The New York Times"" called the adaptation ""a witty mix of love stories and social conniving, cleverly wrapped in the ambitions and illusions of a provincial gentry"". The series inspired author Helen Fielding to"
"Morden Hall Park Morden Hall Park is a National Trust park located on the banks of the River Wandle in Morden, south London. It covers over 50ha (125 acres) of parkland with the River Wandle meandering through it spanned by numerous footbridges. The estate contains Morden Hall itself, Morden Cottage, two Snuff Mills and the restored Stableyard with a dog-friendly cafe, exhibition space and second-hand bookshop. Morden Hall Park is also home to the National Trust's only Garden Centre. The estate land was originally owned by Westminster Abbey. There is evidence of an earlier manor-house originally built by the Garth"
"the London Borough of Lambeth. The library holds a Local History Collection of the Upper Norwood district and the Crystal Palace. A notable park in the area is Upper Norwood Recreation Ground. Its site is part of the Harold Road Conservation Area. Its boundary is defined by Chevening Road, Hermitage Road, Eversley Road and Harold Road. One of London's hidden rivers, River Effra flows under the park and at the Harold Road end a wellhead exists. It was covered in the 1940s. The Upper Norwood Recreation Ground was a location in Patrick Keiller's 1983 film called Norwood and Chris Shepherd's"
"an irregular plan. It is constructed in ashlar and coursed rubble coal measures sandstone with crenellated parapets with pinnacles. It has pitched slate roofs. The gardens, including an Italianate garden laid out by Sir George Sitwell (1860–1943), are open to the public. The hall is open for groups by private arrangement. The park is listed in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England as Grade II*. The 1980 BBC adaptation of ""Pride and Prejudice"" used footage shot at Renishaw Hall. D. H. Lawrence is said to have used the local village of Eckington and Renishaw"
"section of the original Thames towpath extends from the boathouse, north to Cookham Lock. Cliveden House may be accessed by watercraft from the mooring on Cliveden Reach half a mile downstream from Cliveden boathouse. A series of Eyots in the reach are owned by the National Trust, and allow for short periods of mooring for passing boats. Cliveden Reach is a popular spot for canoeing, kayaking, and angling. The National Trust offers self-hire boats and guided river cruises. Cliveden is the location or inspiration for scenes in the following film and TV productions. Cliveden Cliveden (pronounced ) is a National"
"mean that unsupervised swimming has been flagged by the owners as dangerous and forbidden. Fritton Lake Fritton Lake or Fritton Decoy is a lake in the English county of Norfolk. It is a day visit and tourist attraction south-west of Great Yarmouth and north-west of Lowestoft on the Norfolk–Suffolk border close to windmills of The Broads National Park. The lake may be pre-medieval but was largely dug in medieval times to extract peat for burning. It came into use as a duck decoy, a site designed for the large-scale hunting of waterfowl. Artificial water channels covered with net-tunnels were constructed"
"the exterior of Pemberley, experienced a tripling in its visitor numbers after the series' broadcast and is still a popular travel destination. The adaptation is famous for a scene in its fourth episode where a fully dressed Darcy, having emerged from a swim in a lake at Pemberley, accidentally encounters Elizabeth. While many critics attributed the scene's appeal to Firth's sexual attractiveness, Andrew Davies thought that it unwittingly ""rerobed, not disrobed, Austen"". When Davies wrote the scene (it was not part of Austen's novel), he did not intend a sexual connection between Elizabeth and Darcy but to create ""an amusing"
"its endemic species of tree - the ""No Parking Whitebeam"" (""Sorbus admonitor""). Watersmeet House Watersmeet House is a National Trust property located some east of Lynmouth, in the English county of Devon. A former fishing lodge, it is today used as an information centre, tea room and shop by the National Trust. Adjoining the house is the Watersmeet SSSI, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The house, which dates from approximately 1832, was built for Walter Stevenson Halliday. It stands at the bottom of a deep gorge at the confluence of the East Lyn River and Hoar Oak Water. The"
"that Americans cannot embrace in its entirety. From 1995 a large number of Austen adaptations began to appear, with Ang Lee's film of ""Sense and Sensibility"", for which screenwriter and star Emma Thompson won an Academy Award, and the BBC's immensely popular TV mini-series ""Pride and Prejudice"", starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth. A 2005 British production of ""Pride and Prejudice"", directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, was followed in 2007 by ITV's ""Mansfield Park"", ""Northanger Abbey"" and ""Persuasion"", and in 2016 by ""Love & Friendship"", a film version of ""Lady Susan"" that borrowed the"